What are the implications of a judge's finding that there are no common issues that can move the litigation forward?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Service v. University of Victoria, 2019 BCCA 474 (CanLII):
The judge found the situation analogous to that in another case where it was held that there were no common issues that could move the litigation forward “in other than a minimal way” (para. 126, citing Marshall v. United Furniture Warehouse Limited Partnership, 2013 BCSC 2050 at para. 235). Because of the number of individual issues, he found that certification would “create few economies of scale” (para. 132).
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